Your.MD

Last updated
Healthily / Your.MD
TypeHealth technology
IndustryHealthcare
GenreArtificial intelligence
Founded2013 in Oslo, Norway
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Website www.livehealthily.com

Your.MD also known as Healthily, is a digital healthtech company that uses artificial intelligence to provide users with personalised health information via a chatbot. [1]

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It was founded in Oslo, Norway in 2013 by Henrik Pettersen and now has headquarters in London, England. In June 2017, Your.MD raised $10 million in funding from its series A round, [2] bringing total funding to $19 million. Its current investors include: Smedvig Capital AS, Orkla Group and a number of angel investors. [3]

In August 2019, Reckitt Benckiser announced that they were making a strategic investment in and partnership with the company, [4] and in October 2020 it was reported that they had invested €25 million to roll out its “health hubs” concept.

The company reported a 350% increase in the number of users, from 6m users from January to August 2019 to 26m the same period in 2020, largely attributed to the Your.MD Covid-19 Symptom Mapper. The self-care app was launched in India in September 2020. [5]

Performance

In April 2017, Your.MD was awarded the Unesco/Netexplo Award 2017 for “innovations that can improve society”. [6] The app received the ePrivacy seal, meaning that it fully complies with the European laws on privacy. [7]

It entered into a partnership with BMJ Best Practice in May 2018 to validate the medical data used by its AI algorithms. [8]

In October 2017, Your.MD contributed to the UK Government report “Growing the Artificial Intelligence industry in the UK”, and was featured for its presence in the personal health sector. [9]

It has been compared to Babylon's GP at Hand app [10] and Ada Health. In October 2017, when the three apps were tested with symptoms from asthma, shingles, alcohol-related liver disease, and urinary tract infection it failed to diagnose shingles or UTI. At that stage the symptom checker was in a beta stage, and has since been upgraded. [11]

In June 2020, it was awarded the CogX People's Choice COVID-19 Innovation for Society. [12] It is one of the apps which is used to collect data to help model the evolving threat of Covid-19 across the UK in the OASIS project, [13] working with researchers from Imperial College London. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "AI in the real world" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Your.MD raises $10M" . Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Your.MD Scores $5M For Its AI-Driven Health Assistant" . Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "RB announces strategic investment in Your.MD to help unlock self-care". RB. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Healthtech startup Your.MD raises €25m from FTSE 100 company". Sifted. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  6. ↑ "Your.MD Netexplo winner" . Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "eprivacy awarded seals" . Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "BMJ Best Practice and Your.MD Enter Strategic Partnership for AI Medical Validation". BMJ. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Growing the AI industry in the UK" . Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "What's Up Doc? This AI Might Know Better Than Your Physician". Bloomberg. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Can you really trust the medical apps on your phone?". Wired. 1 October 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Awards 2020 Winners". Cogx. 8 June 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  13. ↑ "NHS collecting third party app data to map Covid-19 threat". Tech New Statesman. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  14. ↑ "Global self-care technology platform Your.MD teams up with Imperial College London researchers to map COVID-19 symptoms". Your MD. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
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